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Old 01-21-2010, 05:30 PM   #1
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Question Is it caos good for server?


I want to use a good distro for network server.
Redhat, CentOS and debian seem good. how about caos?
is it good for servers?
in official site write it's very light ans secure. is it true?
 
Old 01-21-2010, 05:34 PM   #2
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I'm passingly familiar with caos, but during the time I spent it seemed stable enough for a server. That being said until it has a longer track history, I'd still suggest either Debian or CentOS over it, they're a bit more conservative and proven and that's important in the long run when stability matters.

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Old 01-21-2010, 05:41 PM   #3
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thanks rweaver. is there any other distro for server? by server i mean network server, dns, dhcp, ldap and so on!
 
Old 01-21-2010, 05:50 PM   #4
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Sure-- There are slews of good server distributions:

SuSE (which I'm not fond of because I dislike yast), Ubuntu Server Edition, Debian (as above), CentOS (as above), RHEL (I prefer CentOS due to RHN), etc... it largely depends on what you value in your server distribution some people dislike debian for instance because they see it as overly conservative, it tends to not be up to date except right when its released and often then it's already out of date in many packages. Some people prefer rpm for packages and some prefer deb for packages. As long as you're not getting a distribution with rolling releases that provide long term support you should be fine in general. Pick a distribution and standardize down on it.
 
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Old 01-25-2010, 04:37 AM   #5
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I'm using Debian lenny for my developing workstation, it's great.
but about server i'm agree with you rweaver, i prefer centos too.
 
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Sure-- There are slews of good server distributions:

SuSE...
I don't think so. Suse is very buggy. How can people use it for serious servers? It's overloaded with modern "easy-to-use" stuff for beginners. And it's always SO "easy-to-use"... Can server system be "easy-to-use"?
 
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Old 06-05-2010, 06:40 PM   #7
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I don't think so. Suse is very buggy. How can people use it for serious servers? It's overloaded with modern "easy-to-use" stuff for beginners. And it's always SO "easy-to-use"... Can server system be "easy-to-use"?
perhaps if you get rid of that "easy-to-use-for-newbie" stuff, then you'll get a simple, robust and clean debian-slack-arch-like server system
 
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I don't think so. Suse is very buggy. How can people use it for serious servers? It's overloaded with modern "easy-to-use" stuff for beginners. And it's always SO "easy-to-use"... Can server system be "easy-to-use"?
Many installs, including redhat and suse, are far better if you strip them to the bare essentials. If you install the entire distribution, I can see where you would get that impression.
 
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ive used bare minimum suse installs for a couple server roles and never had any kind of issues, ive gotten some flack for even considering using suse for any kind of server but i feel really comfortable with it and it hasnt failed me yet...
 
  


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